Wall-paper.



R. B. GRIFFIN.

} WALL PAPER.

APPLIOLTION FILED APB.30, 1910.

Patented Mar; 7, 1911.

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WALL-PAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. '7, 1911.

Application filed April 30, 1910. Serial No. 558,541.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ROBERT B. GRIFFIN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Wall-Pap'er, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in wall paper and especially tomeans whereby cut-out decorated friezes, borders, panels and the likemay be distributed and handled and paste applied by the paper hangerwith out danger of tearing or injuring the same.

It has been found that when the cutting out was done at the factory itwas impracticable toroll the cut-out friezes for shipment owing to thefact that the irregular edges and the frail cut-out portions became tornsame unfit for use. To overcome these objections it has been proposed toperforate the outlines of the decoration, leaving the blanks in place sothat the friezes could be rolled and shipped as an ordinary roll ofpaper. When ready for use the blanks were removed by the paper hanger bytearing out the same on the perforated lines. This has also been foundto be objectionable because in removing the blanks the delicate parts ofthe freizes became torn and in some instances so badly mutilated thatthey could not be used, to say nothing of the time lost in removing saidblanks.

Both the methods referred to were further objectionable because thepaper hanger had to apply the paste very carefully and slowly to preventtearing or removing any of the frail and delicate parts of thedecoration by the brush, and even with the, greatest care, in many casesthe frieze or border could not be used on account of injuries of thischaracter, causing great loss.

The objects of my invention are to remove the said objections and toprovide means whereby the cut-out friezes, borders, etc., can be shippedand handled without liability of injury, and so that the paper hangercan apply paste thereto rapidly and without destroying the same, and atgreat saving of time and expense.

In carrying out the invention the design of the frieze is cut out,preferably by steel dies which insure a smooth edge on the line of out.In some instances the design is out only at the prominent outlines ofthe pattern at the bottom of the frieze, while in other cases the blanksin the body of the pattern may be removed. This produces a frieze whichwhen applied over and on top of ordinary wall paper has a most pleasingeffect, the plain paper itself showing issues through at the cut-outportions of the frieze,

giving the appearance of a free fresco design.

The cut-out frieze is rolled up with a plain strip of paper or otherfabric of greater width than the cut-out frieze, with the decorated sidethereof next .to the plain strip of paper. The plain fabric being widerthan the cut out frieze protects the edges of the frieze and said paperlying be-' tween the cut-out frieze in the roll also prevents anyportion of said frieze coming in contact with any other portion, and theliability of the frail parts of said frieze becoming interlocked andtorn is obviated.

One embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in

'tinuous strip, with the decorated side A next to theprotecting fabric12. The cutout in the body of the frieze is marked 13 and the cut-outedges 14.

15 represents another design of decorated cut-out frieze. In this casethe design is in sections and only the edges 16 are cut out.

The edges of the protecting fabric 12 proj ect beyond the edges of thedecorated frieze at 17 and 18 and when rolled up with the cut-outfrieze, said edges prevent the frieze from being injured intransportation.

19 represents an ordinary paper hangers table resting on legs or trusses20 on which the roll 10 is laid. The end of a roll is spread out on thetable ready for the paper hanger to apply paste thereto, as shown inFig. 3 of the drawing. The cut-out frieze lying in the position shown onthe protecting fabric 12 can have past-e quickly and readily appliedthereto without liability of tearing or removing any of the delicateparts of the frieze. hen paste has been applied to a length of thefrieze it is cut off and pasted on the wall in the usual manner. Thatpart of the protecting fabric from which said length of frieze has beenremoved is torn off and then another length is unrolled and manipulatedin the same manner. As such part of the fabric is not used a secondtime, the frieze always lies on a clean surface when spread out on thetable for pasting, and the objections incident to laying it on anunclean and sticky surface is overcome. Not only is the decoratedsurface of the frieze kept clean, by the present invention, but, as thedelicate figures of the frieze are not caught and held by a stickysurface, they are not pulled off and out of the frieze when the friezeis removed from. the table to be hung. There fore, the paper-hanger doesnot have to use care when lifting the frieze from the table. The friezeis more easily and quickly ma nipulated and more of it can be hung in agiven time than heretofore.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a cutout decorated frieze for wallpaper, and a strip of protecting fabric wider than said frieze, the twobeing superimposed and rolled together the decorated surface of thefrieze being next to the inner surface of the said protecting fabric.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a frieze or border of wall paperhaving an ornamental design and removed portions arranged at variousplaces within the design, a fabric wider than said frieze the edgesthereof extending beyond the edges of the frieze, the fabric and friezebeing superimposed and rolled together, the ornamental design being nextto the inner surface of said fabric.

8. As a new article of manufacture, a roll consisting of a cut-outdecorated frieze and a continuous strip of paper, the two beingsuperimposed and the decoration of the frieze being next to the innersurface of the paper, said paper being wider than the frieze and an edgethereof extending beyond an edge of the frieze, the frieze and thefabric being rolled together.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a roll of wall paper consisting of acontinuous cut-out decorated frieze and a continuous strip of paper, thefrieze being superimposed with the decorated side of the frieze next tothe inner surface of the paper, the paper being wider than the friezeand the edges thereof extending beyond the edges of the frieze, saidfrieze and paper being rolled together.

5. As a new article of nninufacture, a roll consisting of cut-outdecorated wall covering and a strip of fabric, the said fabric beingwider than the wall covering, the two being superimposed and'rolledtogether with an edge of the fabric extending beyond an edge of thecovering, the decorated side of the covering being next to the innersurface of the fabric so that when unrolled said decorated side of thecovering will lie over and be in contact with the fabric.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at the city, county andState of New York, this twentieth day of April, 1910.

ROBERT B. GRIFFIN.

In presence of J. S. PooL, W. H. A. Homrms.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

